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  Penruddock uprising - Biocrawler
The Penruddock uprising was one of a series of coordinated uprisings planned by the Sealed Knot for a Royalist insurrection to start in March 1655 during the Protectorate of the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.
There were plans to seize Salisbury, Newcastle, York and Winchester and instigate smaller uprisings in Nottinghamshire and Cheshire.
Sir John Penruddock along with Sir Joseph Wagstaffe organised and lead the Royalist uprising in the West.
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Penruddock and his second-in-command, Grove, had been given assurances of pardon for themselves and their troops if they surrendered, but Penruddock and Grove were ultimately beheaded, after a rather rudimentary trial.
Her husband suffered much in the late wars, was engaged in Col. Penruddock’s rising in the west, and sentenced to death, but reprieved and banished to the East Indies, where he has lately died.
It clearly was not possible for Robert, or any others exiled after the Penruddock affair, to take their families with them to Barbados, and it would have been years -- probably until the Restoration in 1660 -- before those who survived could have sent for their families had they chosen to remain in Barbados.
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 Penruddock's Uprising, 1655
Initially it was hoped that an uprising in England could be co-ordinated with Glencairn's Uprising in Scotland to overwhelm the Protectorate government but it proved difficult to organise the scattered groups of English Royalists and the insurgency in Scotland was decisively defeated in July 1654.
At dawn the next morning, Penruddock led his troops into Salisbury and arrested the High Sheriff of Wiltshire and the judges who were conducting the county assizes.
Penruddock argued that opposing Cromwell could not constitute treason as the Protector's power had not been legally sanctioned by Parliament, but he was found guilty and sentenced to death.
www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /glossary/penruddocks-uprising.htm   (829 words)

  
 John Penruddock - Biocrawler
Sir John Penruddock (1619-1655) was an English Cavalier during the English Civil War and the English Interregnum who led the Penruddock uprising of 1655.
Sir John Penruddock along with Sir Joseph Wagstaffe organised and led the Royalist uprising in the West.
The next morning he lead his followers out of Salisbury heading west through Blandford, Sherborne and Yeovil hoping to pick up more supporters, but a single troop of horse of the New Model Army under Captain Unton Crook defeated them after a three-hour street fight in South Molton in Devon on 14 March.
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 Frederic Jesup Stimson - (j. S. Of Dale) (united States, 1855) King Noanett (1896)
She was the grand-daughter of Colonel Penruddock, a stubborn adherent of King Charles.
I found that she had escaped; but in a room of that burning house was an ivory crucifix, and one night on the moor I had heard a man's voice singing an old Jacobite tune.
I returned to England with John Penruddock and my lady, and we were married there; but although Charles had come into his own, affairs did not prosper with us in the old country, and we returned to make our home here in the wilderness that Miles Courtenay helped to clear.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - Cromwell, Oliver
In the events which led to the break with the king, he had a small part to play, as a fiery and hot-headed critic of the court and a firm believer in the existence of a Roman Catholic conspiracy against English liberty and Protestantism.
It did not oblige, criticized the Instrument and the cost of the army, and was dissolved in January 1655 by an angry and disappointed Protector.
Each region had an active military “dictator”, such as Lambert in the northern counties, who took over the duties of the local magistracy where necessary, searched for conspirators against the regime, and furthered a project dear to Cromwell, a “reformation of manners”, with the closing of theatres and other Puritan measures against unseemly behaviour.
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 New Model Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They were kept busy throughout the 1650s by minor Royalist uprisings in the Scottish Highlands and by endemic lawlessness by bandits known as mosstroopers.
Only one of the coordinated uprisings ended in fighting, the Penruddock uprising and it was put down by one company of cavalry.
The major foreign entanglement of this period was the Anglo-Spanish War.
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 Bishop's Court   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Manning came of a Catholic family and was, on the face of it, a convincing Royalist: his mission was to inform Charles of the readiness of Royalist sympathizers at Plymouth to join a general uprising.
The Royalist uprising may generally have been a comedy of errors but Penruddock had taken and briefly held Salisbury; only his fateful decision not to wait there and link up with other forces prevented the rebellion gathering momentum and becoming far more dangerous.
Penruddock had been executed, others exiled, Thomas Panton was in prison and Hawkins was dead.
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 Booth's Uprising, 1659
Following the suppression of Penruddock's Uprising in March 1655, increased security measures and the network of spies and agents co-ordinated by John Thurloe ensured that Royalist conspirators were unable to pose any serious threat to the Protectorate.
As with Penruddock's Uprising, a series of insurrections was planned to take place simultaneously in various parts of the country.
On the appointed day, the only partially successful uprising occurred in Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales under the overall command of Sir George Booth who mustered 500 supporters at Warrington in Lancashire on 1 August and advanced to a rendezvous with Cheshire Royalists at Rowton Heath near Chester.
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 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
The rendezvous point for the York uprising was on Marston Moor and is notable for the presence of Earl of Rochester who had arrived from the exiled court of Charles II to take part, it was put down by Colonel Robert Lilburne Governor of York and on its failure Rochester fled the country.
The next morning he led his followers out of Salisbury heading west through Blandford, Sherborne and Yeovil hoping to pick up more supporters, but a single troop of horse of the New Model Army under Captain Unton Crook defeated them after a three-hour street fight in South Molton in Devon on 14 March.
Biography of Henry Wansey who was in Salilsbury at the time of the uprising
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 Penruddock uprising   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Penruddock uprising was one of a series of coordinated uprisings planned by the Sealed Knot for a Royalist inseruction to start in March 1655 during the Protectorate of the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.
The New Model Army garrison in Winchester was reinforced shortly before the uprising so plans to attack it were abandoned.
Sir John Penruddock along with Sir Joseph Wagstaffe organised and lead the Royalist uprising in the West.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Mandeville
Hundreds are killed in the uprising, including Mandeville’s mother and father; Mandeville himself, aged three, is saved by a servant woman named Judith.
He is given a letter of introduction to Colonel Penruddock, one of the Royalist conspirators in the west of England.
The reader is clear that Penruddock’s more inclusive vision, transcending religious differences, is a better one, not least since this is a theme already highlighted in earlier stages of the novel.
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 The Thames Watermen, chapter 6
After the failure of a nine-month experiment in government by a group of religious radicals, a 'Protectorate' was established, with power now shared between a Lord Protector (Cromwell), a new Council of State and a new Parliament (the latter being purged of royalists and other unsuitable persons).
After an attempted royalist uprising in 1655, the country was put under military rule, and divided up into regions, each governed by a major-general.
[22] When Penruddock finally staged his uprising in Wiltshire in March 1655, it was a fiasco.
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 Commonwealth & Protectorate
The Fifth Monarchist army commander, Robert Overton was arrested for planning a military uprising against Cromwell, and the radical republican, Major John Wildman soon joined him in prison.
March 1654, John Penruddock (1619-55) organized a royalist uprising in Salisbury.
It was easily suppressed and Penruddock was beheaded in May.
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 Guardian Unlimited | dummy | Day 328
John Gerard and Peter Vowell, made reckless by their ardour for the monarchy, were executed for plotting to assassinate Cromwell.
Colonel John Penruddock led a quixotic uprising in Wiltshire.
It was brutally suppressed - Penruddock lost his head - but still was another signal to the uneasy coalition of Parliament and Army that England was simmering with discontent.
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 Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century. Ch. IX
Edward Penruddock and George Duke, who took an active part in the uprising which occurred in Salisbury in 1655, were discharged from prison and suffered to withdraw to Virginia on condition that they would make no further attempt against the government of Cromwell.
the uprising in Scotland had been suppressed with a merciless hand, a considerable proportion of the prisoners were shipped to America.
It is a notable feature of these instructions, that Charles commanded his representatives in Virginia to treat as invalid the law prohibiting the importation of felons who had been convicted in the English courts, and to sweep away all hindrances which might be opposed to the execution of the royal wishes.
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 A Timeline
Small Royalist uprising lead by Colonel John Penruddock is quickly crushed
Sire George Booth's uprising is defeated at Winnington Bridge
May 29 - Restoration of King Charles II - Mostly arranged by George Monck and a strong detachment from the English garrison of Scotland
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 Wiltshire County Council - Wiltshire Community History Get Wiltshire History Question Information
The city was retaken by the New Model Army whose regiments later mutinied there.
Later the city was involved in the Royalist Penruddock uprising.
I think that it is quite likely that your musket balls are of this period but Salisbury Museum could give you an opinion if you took some there.
www.wiltshire.gov.uk /community/getfaq.php?id=395   (318 words)

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